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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. MOHAMED MIRAY

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Dec 18, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Jonathan W. Turner, Franklin, Tennessee (on appeal); Donna Hargrove, District Public Defender; Michael Collins and James Tucker, Assistant Public Defenders (at trial), Shelbyville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Mohamed Miray.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Lacy E. Wilber, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Robert Carter, District Attorney General; and Mike Randles and Lisa Zavogiannis, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): EASTER

Mohamed Miray, Defendant, was indicted for and convicted of first degree murder. He was sentenced to life in prison. Defendant was identified and charged in part based upon a match to DNA found at the scene of the murder. Prior to trial, Defendant filed a motion to suppress in which he argued that his DNA was not properly in the Combined DNA Index System (“CODIS”) because he was acquitted of a charge for which he was required to give a DNA sample when arrested and that his DNA should have been removed from the database as a result of the acquittal. The trial court denied the motion to suppress. Defendant was convicted by a jury and filed a motion for new trial. The trial court denied the motion for new trial, and this appeal followed. On appeal, Defendant challenges the trial court’s ruling on the motion to suppress and the sufficiency of the evidence. After a review, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

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